To win, you have to be the first player to reach your Slack Goal - this can be accomplished by buying geeky stuff, doing geeky things, or inviting other geeks over. The game has a very strong screw-your-neighbor bent to it, also; a lot of the cards are well-suited for thwarting your opponents, and sometimes it's more profitable to decrease your buddy's slack instead of increasing your own.

The rules are, with basically one exception, quite simple. Unlike some other card games, I found the instructions quite lucid. The order or operations is clearly explained in the instruction manual, and those cards with special rules associated with them are not hard to understand or use.

This game is best played with those geeks with which you've actually lived, because while you can't kill 'em in real life, using the Justifiable Homocide card has a certain visceral pleasure. From the card: "That was the last slice of pizza. No jury on earth would convict me."